American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
May 15 - August 24, 2003

Jon Kuhn
Sagittarius
Laminated glass worked in cold state
1999 13 x 5 x 6.75

Jon Kuhn (born 1949; resides Winston-Salem, NC)

Jon Kuhn earned his B.F.A in ceramics from Washburn University in 1972. He launched his career as an artist after completing his M.F.A. at Virginia Commonwealth University. Kuhn exhibited blown glass in many of the most important exhibitions of the time early in his career: New American Glass: Focus West Virginia, The Huntington Galleries; Americans in Glass, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Emergence: Art in Glass, Bowling Green State University, Ohio; and New Glass: A World Wide Survey, The Corning Museum of Glass. After nine years of glassblowing, Kuhn changed direction. His current work is constructed from as many as 5,000 to 6,000 pieces of colored glass layered and laminated together, and then cut, ground and polished. The result is a myriad of color and optical illusion for the eye. Because Kuhn’s work is labor intensive, one piece can take a year or two to complete. Kuhn’s work, which draws viewers into its mysterious inner spaces, is inspired by the artist’s interest in Zen Buddhism, and its qualities of mysticism and spirituality. The Collection of The White House, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Smithsonian, are just a few of the public collections that contain Kuhn’s work.

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